Army Appropriation Bill Moved To Boost Forces
The House Appropriations Committee proposed 447.8 million dollars for the next fiscal year, up 32.5 million from the current year and near 1920 21 levels. About 124 million would fund air corps expansion to 3 302 planes. Guard enrollment rises to 205 000. training camps stay at 2 275 000. General Craig warned a 1 billion dollar outlay may be needed to stock clothing weapons transport and ammunition for a 1 000 000 strong army.
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Washington
House Appropriations Committee
Congress
Roosevelt
AIR Corps
Army
Budget Bureau
National Guard
Citizens
Malin Craig
Appropriations Committee
Craig
Judge Landis Freeizes Most Minor Leaguers in Trio
Belmont reports Judge Landis, commissioner of baseball, declared nearly all Cedar Rapids Iowa and Moneto Missouri players free agents and fined the Springfield Illinois Western Association club $1000. The nine page order follows investigation into St Louis Cardinals farming system extending into minor league clubs not formally listed as Cardinal farms.
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Fla
K. M. Landis
Igh
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Moneto
Springfield
Ill
Western Association
St. Louis Cardinals
Cardinal Farms
Berg Fires 38 Outgoing Nines Lead Mid-South Golf Meet
Patty Berg of Minneapolis carded a 38 on the outgoing nine to lead the tenth annual Women's Mid-South golf tournament at the halfway mark with 118. Estelle Lawson Page of Chapel Hill and Jane Cothran Jameson of West Palm Beach shot 30s in the morning. Page stood at 122 and Jameson at 119.
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Southern Pines
N. Y
Patty Berg
Minneapolis
Britain objects to Mexico expropriation of oil properties
London reports that the British Government has made representations to Mexico over President Lazaro Cardenas expropriating British oil properties. R A Butler told the House of Commons that Britain has drawn Mexico's attention to the matter and its anxiety over the action.
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London
Mar
Mexico
Lazaro Cardenas
R. A. Butler
House of Commons
Two Held in Levine Kidnapping Case
Ham hold suspects in Levine case on charges of attempted extortion for the 880000 ransom. Police say the youths used false kidnapping fear to target the missing 12 year old Peter Levine, abducted February 24. Edward John Penn 18 of Pelham High School and Werner Fred Luck 23, unemployed father, were handcuffed and guarded by agents and detectives.
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Levine
Peter Levine
Edward John Penn
Pelham High School
Werner Fred Luck
Ghezzi Tops Golfers at Pinehurst in North and South
Victor Ghezzi of Deat New Jersey fired a four under par 68 to lead early finishers in the 15th renewal of the historic North and South tournament at Pinehurst. He posted an 84 on the outgoing nine and finished strong with four birdies on the tough No 2 course.
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Pinehurst
Mar
Victor Ghezsi
Deat
N. J
Gheszi
Hme
Two men held on manslaughter charge after fatal highway crash
Roddie Ferrell of Wilson and Co Forbus of Waynesboro Virginia were bound at $500 each on manslaughter charges in the Sunday death of Mary Chase, 20, following a highway accident in Wilson North Carolina.
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Wilson
N. C
Roddie Ferrell
Wilson, An Co. R
Forbus
Waynesboro
Mary Chase
Plane Crash Kills Three Near Benton Harbor
A four seat plane crashed into a swamp two miles north of Benton Harbor late Tuesday, killing two South Bend men Fred Wharton 25 and George W Hepler Jr 19 and an unidentified young woman. Wharton was an experienced pilot and Hepler the son of Studebaker plant foreman.
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Mich
South Bend
Ind
Fred Wharton
George W. Hepler, Jr
Studebaker Corporation
Rebels Drive Northward As Franco Offensive Advances
Rebels push north of Huesca as Generalissimo Franco shifts toward the eastern provincial capital. The Aragon front strengthens along the Alcaniz line while Pius I appeals for less bombing. Government defenses retreat southeast of Huesca amid clashes on a 12 mile front.
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Ebro
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Sierra
Arascues
Masaing
Confederate Vet Harry Lee Dies at 92 in Nashville
Harry Reno Lee, 92, former commander-in-chief of the United Confederate Veterans, died after a long illness in Nashville. Born February 27, 1864, in Natchez Mississippi, he joined the Confederate Army in 1862 at Tupelo at age 16 and served the war’s end. He led the UCV as commander-in-chief from 1935 and helped organize the Joint Free-Crow reunion planned for Cottysburg Pennsylvania.
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Tenn
Harry Reno Lee
United Confederate Veterans
Cottysburg
Natchez
Miss
Lee
Tupelo
United Confederal Veterans
Amarillo
Tex
U. Cc. V
Ousted TVA Chief May Talk Today
Dr. Arthur E. B. Morgan removed from the Tennessee Valley Authority chairmanship by President Roosevelt arrived in Chicago and planned a press conference later today as his daughter stated.
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Chicago
Arthur EB. Morgan
Roosevelt
Tennessee Valley Authority
Misa Dora Well
Mra
Landrum Bolling
Britain Seeks Labor Backing to Accelerate Arms Drive
Prime Minister Chamberlain asked the Trades Union Congress to meet with him to secure labor support for speeding Britain's vast rearmament program. He floated a policy of no new commitments abroad while expanding defense, warning the five year plan may exceed 7.5 billion dollars.
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Chamberlain
General Council of the
Trades Union Congress
No. 10
Downing Street
Commons
Organized Labor
Britain
Czechoslovakia
Son Of Hearst Weds Show Girl
Blonde Hope Chandler former show girl and night club entertainer married 22 year old David Hearst son of publisher William Randolph Hearst in a Grace Episcopal Church ceremony. About 100 guests attended as the bride was given in marriage by her father Samuel Coley of New York with bridesmaid Mrs Mary Roland Yost in navy blue.
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New York
Hope Chandler
David Hearst
William Randolph Hearst
Chapel
Grace Episcopal Church
W. Rusell Bowie
Samuel Coley
Mary Roland Yost
High Court Grants New Trial for Mosley in North Carolina
The North Carolina Supreme Court ordered a new trial for Henry Mosley of Winston-Salem in the murder of Clarence Black, ruling parts of the Forsyth Superior Court jury instructions on self defense were prejudicial. The court also upheld the death sentence for 15 year old Mann Smith alias Hiawatha Smith in McDowell County. Twenty seven cases were decided.
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Raleigh
N. C
State Supreme Court
Henry Mosley
Winston-Salem
Clarence Black
McDowell County
Mann Smith
Hiawatha Smith
Judietsair
Roosevelt Links Wages to National Recovery in Georgia Speech
President Roosevelt in Gainesville Georgia attacked "special privilege" and the federal system as fascist like. He condemned low wages in the South and urged cooperation to rebuild the nation, devoting praise to Gainesville’s post tornado rebuilding and promising progress over return to past methods. He criticized a selfish minority in Congress and urged action beyond 1921 to 1933 government practices.
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Roosevelt
Georgia
South
Washington
Warm Springs
Roosevelt Square
Harding
Coolidge
Hoover
United States
Congress
Finale at Carolina Dramatic Festival in Chapel Hill
The 15th annual festival and tournament wrapped up with final contests in play production across child, junior community and WPA groups and in senior college play writing. Dr. Frederick Koch delivered a reading from A Midsummer Night's Dream as part of the program.
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Chapel Hill
N. C
Mar
Frederick Koch
Carolina Dramatic Association
WPA
Howard Bailey
Yamuel Selden
Harry Davis
Dr. Koch
Carolina Playmakers
Byrd presses to preserve comptroller power to halt illegal spending
Senator Byrd asserts the comptroller general must stay to curb illegal expenditures and warns against ceding control to the budget director. The Senate moves toward final action on the executive reorganization bill amid amendments and shelving maneuvers. The naval expansion bill looms next with expected votes and opposition. Roosevelt signals possible anti lynching committee if that legislation is dropped.
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D-Va
Senate
Comptroller General's Office
Clark
D-Mo
Veterans Bureau
Walsh
D-Mass
Naval
House
Roosevelt
Congress
Roosevelt ousts M an from TVA over removal
President Roosevelt announces the removal of Arthur E. Morgan from the Tennessee Valley Authority chairmanship and elevates Harcourt A. Morgan to chair. He cites the legislature’s right to probe TVA while asserting his duty to enforce laws. Robert H. Jackson supports the removal power with charges of dishonesty and integrity issues against Morgan and Liken.
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Roosevelt
Congress
Arthur E. Man
TVA
Barkley
Bridges
King
Utah
Senate House
Agen Barkley
Momgan
Tennessee Valley Authority
P Dent
Harcourt A. Morgan
James L. Fly
Capitol
Robert H. Jackson
Jackson
David EB
Tennessee
Chinese Break Try Is Futile
Three hundred Chinese soldiers held in a French concession camp stormed the barbed wire to escape. A Tonkinese guard was killed. Police hunted 30 armed Chinese in hotels and lodgings. Elsewhere Japanese forces pressed a nine day siege at the Grand Canal north of Suchow Junction, with Li Tsung Jen defending entrenched lines.
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International Settlement
Nantao
Grand Canal
Suchow
Lunghai
Tientsin-Pukow
Li Tsung-Jen
Byrd and McDonald Held for Death in New York
Clyde Byrd and Ulysses McDonald, both of Winston-Salem, were ordered held for grand jury action on a murder charge in the death of Detroit mechanic George Walter Taylor. Testimony placed them with Taylor the night of March 22 and Taylor’s death as he lay in a car. evidence cited choking between 8 p.m. and midnight. Taylor and his wife were visiting relatives.
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Danbury
N. Y
J. L. Christians
Clyde
Byrd
Ulysses McDonald
Winston-Salem
George Walter Taylor
Detroit
Mich
Christian
Teat Dalton
Taylor
McDonald
Ben Neal
W. E. Braswell
Stokes County
Six jailed for assault on girl in Anderson County
Six men aged 18 to 30 were jailed in Anderson county on charges of statutory rape involving a school girl under 16. Warrant issued after local investigations, with one man still sought and others questioned or released after questioning tied to the case.
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Anderson
D. C
Anderson County
Mexican Labor Proposes Taxes After Oil Expropriation
The Confederation of Mexican Workers urged a tax plan to fund foreign oil operators for losses after the government expropriated the $400 million industry. Taxes would hit real estate, industry, securities, and wages above 100 pesos monthly. Evacuation of foreign oil workers from isolated areas was largely completed with 33 people, including eight children, flown from Tuxpan, Veracruz.
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Confederation of Mexican Workers
Confederation
Tuxpan
Vera Cruz
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